Law Books at Easter Library

Databases

Law- Subject Guide

In This Guide You Will Find:

This subject guide focuses on information and resources dedicated to the study of government, law, and justice. You will find links to online research databases, print resources, respected Internet sites, featured books in our collection and more.

Finding Books and Journals

Books

Books at the Easter Library are organized according to the Library of Congress (LC) Classification system. Each call number range represents a particular subject. See below for a few examples of call number assignments for books related to law. For a complete breakdown of these classes and their subcategories, please see the LC Classification link below.

You can find print journals by searching the online catalog or browsing the collection in the library (arranged alphabetically by title).

E-Journals:

The library subscribes and offers access to several databases that contain both citations and full-text articles for numerous journal articles. EBSCO Academic Search Complete and ProQuest offer the largest variety, covering different disciplines.

Business Source Premier: A business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.

Presented by the National Archives, this website includes the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Bill of Rights. You can also find high resolution images of the charters on the site and much more.

A "worldwide non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting and developing arbitration, conciliation and other forms of international dispute resolution." Holds conferences in even-numbered years, publishes the Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration, and provides treaties and arbitration laws of many foreign countries.

Founded in 1899, now with more than 100 member states. "[A]dministers arbitration, conciliation and fact finding in disputes involving various combinations of states, private parties, state entities, and intergovernmental organizations." Provides annual reports, cases, rules, treaties, and other documents.

THOMAS was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public. THOMAS includes: bills, resolutions, activity in Congress,